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Seahawks stars Earl Thomas and Marshawn Lynch may be all business on the football field, but when it comes to appearing on Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Sports Awards, it’s all fun and slime.

Thomas and Lynch were among the athletes who got slimed — yes, covered in neon-green slime — at the TV network’s inaugural sports-awards show Thursday. That’s what you get, it seems, when you don’t win one of Nickelodeon’s contests or awards.

Quarterback Russell Wilson, who attended the show in Los Angeles with his 17-year-old sister, Anna, was the only Seahawk in attendance to escape un-slimed. He won Nickelodeon’s “Favorite Newcomer” award after a kids’ vote, beating out baseball stars Mike Trout, Bryce Harper and Yasiel Puig, WNBA hoopster Skylar Diggins and tennis pro Sloane Stephens.

Meanwhile, the 12th Man was given the title, “Smells Like Team Spirit” — a word-play on the famous song by Seattle grunge legends Nirvana. Seattle fans won against fans of the Detroit Red Wings, Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders, Oklahoma City Thunder and Pittsburgh Steelers.

Lynch was nominated for “Clutch Player of the Year,” but lost the award to New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony. It was during his entrance to the show that Lynch grabbed an award, bowled over several innocent bystanders (probably stuntmen, actually) and jumped into a vat of green slime. Check out the first video below.

Thomas wasn’t up for an award, but faced off against Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald in the show’s “power dunk” competition. Each sitting atop a giant tub of slime, the two athletes threw balls at targets on each other’s dunk tanks. Fitzgerald was victorious, dunking Thomas into the green goo. Check out the second video below.